The National Alliance (, NA), officially the National Alliance "All for Latvia!" – "For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK" (), is a national-conservative and economically liberal political party in Latvia.
It was formed as an electoral alliance for the 2010 Latvian parliamentary election between the For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK and All for Latvia! parties. It won eight seats, placing it fourth among all parties. In July 2011, it merged into a single political party under the leadership of Gaidis Bērziņš and Raivis Dzintars. In the 2014 Latvian parliamentary election, it again increased its seats to seventeen, and entered a centre-right coalition, along with Unity and the Union of Greens and Farmers under Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma.
It has participated in every government of Latvia from the 2011 Latvian parliamentary election until the Siliņa cabinet to prevent Harmony Centre from leading the coalition. It is also a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party (ECR) and its two MEPs, Roberts Zīle and Rihards Kols, sit in the ECR group in the European Parliament. The party controls the town and city governments of Ogre, Bauska, Smiltene, Sigulda, and Talsi.
History As an electoral alliance (2010–2011)
It was founded as an electoral alliance in 2010 by the national-conservative For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK and the populist radical right All for Latvia! after both were refused entry into the Unity alliance. In the 2010 Latvian parliamentary election, the alliance won 8 seats. As part of the outgoing government, it was involved in negotiations after the election to renew the coalition but was vetoed by the Society for Political Change. During these negotiations, the National Alliance had drifted more to the right to become a candidate for Dombrovskis's 'fiscal consolidation' government, only to be vetoed because of its more radical nationalism.
In 2010, the National Alliance initiated a campaign to amend the Constitution of Latvia to make Latvian the sole language of instruction in state-funded schools, collecting the 10,140 signatures needed to launch an official signature drive. Held from 11 May to 9 June 2011, the drive gathered 112,608 signatures, falling short of the 153,232 required to trigger a referendum. In May 2011, the party supported the re-election of Valdis Zatlers in the 2011 Latvian presidential election.
As a political party (2011–present) Both parties voted to merge on 23 July 2011.
At the 2011 Latvian parliamentary election, the National Alliance won fourteen seats, an increase of six on the previous year, making it the fourth-largest party in the Saeima. After extensive negotiations with an aim to avoid Kremlin supporting powers from gaining seats in government, it joined a centre-right government with Unity and Zatlers' Reform Party, with the party's Gaidis Bērziņš as Minister for Justice and Žaneta Jaunzeme-Grende as Minister for Culture.
During coalition negotiations, the National Alliance added its own interpretation of four items in the coalition agreement, including support for state-funded higher education, the gradual transition to Latvian as the language of instruction in state-funded education institutions, and the removal of formal barriers to citizenship for non-citizen children while rejecting automatic citizenship. After becoming a junior coalition partner, the National Alliance shifted leftwards. By adopting a mildly oppositional stance towards the fiscally hawkish policies of Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis and Finance Minister Andris Vilks, the party blocked some budget proposals by calling for additional spending on families and children.
On 23 August 2013, marking the 25th anniversary of the Baltic Way, the All for Latvia! wing of National Alliance together with Estonian Conservative People's Party and Lithuanian Nationalist and Republican Union signed the Bauska Declaration pledging to promote a "new national awakening" among the Baltic peoples, emphasizing national sovereignty over supranational institutions, opposing immigration and multiculturalism, condemning Russian imperialism, and calling for compensation for damages resulting from the Soviet occupation. The merging of the two founding parties was finalized on the National Alliance's third congress on 7 December 2013, finally creating one unitary party.
In 2014, amid the Russo-Ukrainian war, the party's support had grown to 16.6% from 13.9% in 2011. For the 2014 Latvian parliamentary election, the National Alliance campaigned under the slogan "The safest choice for Latvia", emphasising Latvian nationalism, the protection of the Latvian language and culture, and national security, particularly in light of the Russo-Ukrainian war. While remaining part of the governing coalition, the party sought to distinguish itself from its coalition partners, with MEP Roberts Zīle serving as its prime ministerial candidate. The party gained 17 seats and entered a centre-right coalition, along with Unity and the Union of Greens and Farmers under Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma. In the government, National Alliance received three ministerial posts: the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development, headed by Kaspars Gerhards; the Ministry of Justice, headed by Dzintars Rasnačs; and the Ministry of Culture, headed by Dace Melbārde.
Ahead of the 2018 Latvian parliamentary election, National Alliance had become increasingly regarded as part of Latvia’s political establishment due to its continuous participation in government since 2011, with its role in government shifting political rhetoric rightwards while diminishing its anti-establishment image. After the election, in which it won 11.02% of the votes and 13 seats, The National Alliance joined a broad centre-right coalition government formed on 23 January 2019 under Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš, alongside Development/For!, the New Conservative Party, Kariņš' Unity, and Who Owns the State? party. Within the government, the National Alliance was allocated the ministerial posts of Agriculture (Kaspars Gerhards) and Culture (Dace Melbārde).
In 2019, Raivis Dzintars was re-elected unopposed as party chairman with the support of 239 delegates, while 16 voted against. The congress reaffirmed the party's leadership and highlighted priorities including national defence, opposition to administrative territorial reform, and regaining political influence in Riga.
The National Alliance's campaign for the 2022 Latvian parliamentary election included expanded welfare spending, such as free higher education, student loan cancellation, and subsidised housing, alongside support for state strategic sectors. It also proposed deporting foreign supporters of the Kremlin, introducing mandatory military training for men, setting "reasonable deadlines" for court proceedings, and making Latvian the language of instruction at all levels of education. The party additionally nominated Sigulda mayor as its prime ministerial candidate instead of the prior Roberts Zīle.
It received 84,939 or 9.29% of the votes, marking a decline from its 11.02% (92,963 votes) result in 2018 and a continued reduction of its voter base, which happened despite the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the collapse of its main right-wing rival, The Conservatives, who failed to cross the 5% parliamentary threshold. The National Alliance formed a majority coalition with New Unity and United List with 54 seats in the Saeima and was allocated four ministerial positions: Defence (Ināra Mūrniece), Economy (Ilze Indriksone), Culture (Nauris Puntulis), and Transport (Jānis Vitenbergs).
In February 2024, National Alliance expelled Aleksandrs Kiršteins from its parliamentary faction amid ongoing internal disagreements over political direction after his participation in a China-related delegation led by Ainārs Šlesers, which the party cited as inconsistent with its requirement for coordinated and unified foreign policy. In March polling, the National Alliance's support rose to 10.3%, an increase of 0.3 percentage points from the previous month and briefly placing it in first place ahead of New Unity that the Public Broadcasting of Latvia attributed to the departure of Aleksandrs Kiršteins, whom it described as one of National Alliance's most right-wing and divisive figures, and linked it to improved appeal among moderate conservative voters.
In July 2024, the Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau ordered the National Alliance to repay 210,673.59€ and suspended its state budget funding for one year after determining that the party had exceeded legal limits on the use of public financing for communication and political advertising in 2022, surpassing the permitted 60% threshold under Latvia's political financing rules. The National Alliance appealed the decision.
In December 2025, Raivis Dzintars stepped down as chairman of the National Alliance after leading the party since its founding in 2010, with Ilze Indriksone running for the leadership post, emphasizing greater focus on economic issues without changing the party's political direction.
Ideology and policies The National Alliance has been described as national-conservative, right-wing populist, nationalist, and economically liberal. It has been placed at different points on the political spectrum, including centre-right, right wing, radical right and far right, while some have questioned its placement on the far-right.
Having been described as an "umbrella party" and a "fairly broad church" its MPs cover a wide range of positions from right-of-centre, from mainstream conservative positions to some considerably further to the right of the political spectrum, while still functioning as one parliamentary party. The party has also been characterised as bringing together Latvia's principal conservative-nationalist forces, ranging from moderate to ultranationalists or soft right to the far right, as well as a coalition of conservatives, ethnonationalists, and economic liberals, which has sought to distance itself from perceptions of extremism associated with the earlier activities of some of its leading members. Its official programme is generally more moderate than the private views attributed to some members. While some of the most prominent members such as Roberts Zīle, Nauris Puntulis and Rihards Kols have been described as closer to conventional conservative parties, others, such as former secretary general Raivis Zeltīts and parliamentary faction consultant Dace Kalniņa, have had documented contacts with British and Ukrainian far-right, although co-chairman Dzintars has publicly distanced the party from these associations, stating that National Alliance representatives are engaged with the Azov movement in their private capacity and that the geopolitical views of the party's secretary-general do not necessarily reflect the party's official politics and ideological positioning. Latvian-American human rights activist and political scientist Nils Muižnieks characterised the National Alliance as "relatively moderate" in 2011 and noted that the party had expelled some of its members for making antisemitic remarks.